How to Be Indispensable

What's the best guarantee against unemployment and of real progress in your career? Being indispensable to your organization. But what make an employee indispensable and how do managers recognize this key quality?

This week marketing guru Seth Godin posts a video on his blog in which Jacqueline Novogratz, CEO of Acumen Fund, shares her definition of an indispensable employee, how she can tell if someone is indispensable as soon as they walk in the room, and how corporate culture can inhibit or celebrate the can-do, risk-taking character that makes workers indispensable. Short, to the point, and well worth a watch.

(Jacqueline Novogratz on how to recognize a linchpin from Seth Godin on Vimeo.)

Want to read more about Novogratz and her work at Acumen Fund? Check out this recent interview with a former Acumen Fund fellow on working in social enterprise for more insights about the field.